Poetry Please - 15/06/2008

This week’s programme includes an intriguing “English ghazal”, - the ghazal being a Middle-Eastern verse form not normally associated with English. Ghazal: The Candles of the Chestnut Trees by Mimi Khalvati From: The Meanest Flower Publ: Carcanet Ghazal: After Hafez by Mimi Khalvati From: The Meanest Flower Publ: Carcanet In the Orchard by Muriel Stuart From: The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse Publ: Oxford At Last The Secret is Out by W.H. Auden From: Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 Publ: faber Be Frugal by Richard Church From: The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse Publ: Oxford R.I.P by Alan Garner From: Occasional Poets Publ: Viking If the Past Year Were Offered Me Again by Lady Augusta Gregory From: Irish Poetry – an Interpretive Anthology Publ: New York University Press This poem features only in the Sunday afternoon edition Heraclitus by W.J. Cory From: Everyman’s Book of Victorian Verse Dear Bryan Winter by W.S. Graham From: Collected Poems 1942-1977 Publ: Faber Far in a western brookland by A.E. Housman From: Poems selected by Alan Hollinghurst Publ: faber Watermelon, the only word I have by Noel Rowe From: The Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics Poem for Everyone by John T Wood The Saturday night edition finishes with Carla Bruni’s rendition of WH Auden’s At Last the Secret is Out, from her album ‘No Promises’